Friday, 22 February 2013

Brassens sings this famous poem by Paul Fort. They are the frank words of a sailor telling how a navy career obliges sailors to cram all their love life into the short interludes of shore leave. Typically for Paul Fort, love wins the day. His view of human love was coloured by his deep, lifelong love of his wife, which he shows in his poem:
"Si le bon dieu avait voulu".